History MindScrew / Webcomics

* The previous MS Pain tAdventure ''Webcomic/{{ProblemSleuth}}'' is actually a better example, given that it through logic literally out the window right at the beginning. Over the course of the story, we have an imaginary universe that exists in all the characters' minds simultaneously, but physical objects can pass between the real and imaginary worlds. That's not even getting into things like mental transportation by hitting your head, valves, doors and clothes that change peoples' sizes and shapes, a robot walking through a portal into the building it's carrying on its back, or ''putting a window through itself''

** Actually, almost everything (with the exception of the aforementioned elements) makes perfect sense in the context of the story. However, a lot of the time, you have to think hard about every detail, pour over your extensive notes and reread several earlier portions of the story before figuring it out, and then look it up online to realise you were only scratching the surface. Of course, that's what makes it so fun.
** although there are still so many unanswered questions at this point in the story that a lot of stuff still qualifies.

* ''Webcomic/CaptainSnes'' definitely reaches this at times. Particularly in one comic in which the character [[HowWeGotHere telling the story]] taunt his captor about how the truth should be obvious at this point. Before realizing that he'd forgotten to mention key details earlier, and adding a whole other layer to the story.

* ''Webcomic/CaptainSnes'' definitely reaches this at times. Particularly in one comic in which the character telling the stories taunts about how the truth should be obvious at this point. Before realizing that he'd forgotten to mention key details earlier, and adding a whole other layer to the story.

* ''DresdenCodak'' does this to varying degrees. [[http://dresdencodak.com/cartoons/dc_023.htm This one]] is a complete MindScrew.

* ''{{Kagerou}}''. The main character's SplitPersonality is actually pretty realistic (he's unaware of his other personalities, and none of them are really functional human beings), suggesting that the author perhaps has some personal experience.

* {{Magicandphysics}} has this, generally in the presence of FridgeLogic. Once played with when a character just says the word MindScrew, and it has this effect on another character.
* The ''SluggyFreelance'' guest arc "[[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=050530 The Sluggite Koan]]" does this in a big way. What at first seems like a somewhat straightforward RefugeeFromTVLand and TrappedInTVLand story delves into weird symbolism, philosophy, and loads and loads of [[MetafictionDemandedThisIndex Metafiction]].

* ''YuMeDream'' starts of as a straightforward GirlsLove strip (albeit with an [[EthnicScrappy ebonics-spouting conscience]]), until the last ten pages of issue 9, when [[spoiler:the entire comic up to that point is revealed to be AllJustADream, with a minor character actually being a Morpheus-like being]]...and then it gets ''[[ItGotWorse weird]]''.
* The final arc of the fifth book of ''{{Fans}}'', "What Dreams May Come" focuses on a wish-granting artifact granting a kind of (extremely geeky) {{Instrumentality}}, apparently a metaphor for the afterlife. A few of the earlier and later introspective storylines could get a little MindScrew-[[BuffySpeak ey]], but this one (being the intended finale) was just plain ''insane''.
* ''TemplarArizona''. The main characters are straightforward enough, but everything about the world around them is some twisted reflection of our own.

* A ''{{Nedroid}}'' storyline ends on [[http://nedroid.com/2007/03/beartato-63/ this screwy note]].

* Occasionally, ''GeneCatlow'' wanders into this, mainly due to the strange mix of philosophy, spirituality and sheer silliness.
* BobAndGeorge, the Entire series was just one big MIND SCREW, unless you pay attention to every detail, you are going to get lost.

* {{Jerkcity}}. It's just a bunch of chat logs, mainly focused on UNIX, pot smoking, and homosexuality. OR IS IT?

* ''FaceAllRed'' derives most of its horror from this.
* Dialogue in RumorsOfWar is often a bit on the screwy side, but [[LoveableRogue Nenshe]] goes on a JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind during the fifth story arc and the things we see there are less comprehensible.

* CaptainSnes definitely reaches this at times. Particularly in one comic in which the character telling the stories taunts about how the truth should be obvious at this point. Before realizing that he'd forgotten to mention key details earlier, and adding a whole other layer to the story.

* {{Bob and George}}, the Entire series was just one big MIND SCREW, unless you pay attention to every detail, you are going to get lost.

* In-universe example in [[http://www.xkcd.com/390/ this]] ''{{xkcd}}''.

* In ''ElGoonishShive'', there is lots of it. When done intentionally, usually involves [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2003-02-17 attempts to project the normal family tree]] onto [[OppositeSexClone Ellen]]'s case in several equally disturbing ways.

* CaptainSnes definitely reaches this at times. Particularly in one comic in which the character telling the stories taunts about how the truth should be obvious at this point. Before realizing that he'd forgotten to mention key details earlier, and adding a whole other layer to the sotry.

** It doesn't help that it is apparently, but not explicitly, set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture.

* ''[[PungeonMaster Yu+ Me: Dream]]'' starts of as a straightforward GirlsLove strip (albeit with an [[EthnicScrappy ebonics-spouting conscience]]), until the last ten pages of issue 9, when [[spoiler:the entire comic up to that point is revealed to be AllJustADream, with a minor character actually being a Morpheus-like being]]...and then it gets ''[[ItGotWorse weird]]''.

* ''GunnerkriggCourt'' managed to confuse some readers as to what's going on in Chapter 34 (Faraway Morning). The recipe in this case is interaction of characters who are a bunch of teens in extra weird circumstances, and as such themselves neither have a clear idea of what they want nor are good at sorting through their own feelings.

* In ''ElGoonishShive'', there is lots of it. When done intentionally, usually involves attempts to project the normal family tree onto Ellen's case in several equally disturbing ways.

* Dialogue in RumorsOfWar is often a bit on the screwy side, but [[LoveableRogue Nenshe]] goes on a JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind during the fifth story arc and the things we see there are less comprehensible.

* ''{{Adventurers}}!'' [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this trope in the [[http://www.adventurers-comic.com/d/20051224.html some sort of symbolic]] climax.

* ''{{Homestuck}}'' starts off relatively easily to understand, but once the KudzuPlot had taken root, updates are now more likely to bring up far more questions than they answer.

* ''FaceAllRed'' derives most of its horror from this.

* ''Templar, Arizona''. The main characters are straightforward enough, but everything about the world around them is some twisted reflection of our own.

* In-universe example in [[http://www.xkcd.com/390/ this]] ''{{xkcd}}''.

* In ''ElGoonishShive'', there is lots of it. When done intentionally, usually involves attempts to project the normal family tree onto Ellen's case in several equally disturbing ways.

* ''{{Homestuck}}'' starts off relatively easily to understand, but once the KudzuPlot had taken root, updates are now more likely to bring up far more questions than they answer.

* {{Jerkcity}}. It's just a bunch of chat logs, mainly focused on UNIX, pot smoking, and homosexuality. [[OrIsIt OR IS IT?]]

* {{Jerkcity}}. It's just a bunch of chat logs, mainly focused on UNIX, pot smoking, and homosexuality. OR IT IT?